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Charli Carpenter
Author and professor of political science and legal studies
Charli Carpenter is a professor in the department of political science and legal studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, specializing in international law and human security. She is also the director of Human Security Lab, an interdisciplinary initiative focused on science in the human interest. She has published three books and numerous journal articles, and held fellowships at the Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt, Oakley Center and Harvard’s Kennedy School. She has also served as a consultant for the United Nations, U.S. State Department, U.S. Department of Defense, and the human rights NGO community. She is a bi-weekly columnist at World Politics Review and regularly contributes to Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. In addition to teaching and research, Professor Carpenter spends her time parenting, traveling, arguing with concentration camp guards, kayaking, snowboarding and rescuing spiders.